Terribly sad
Tributes have poured in for a ‘hero’ dad and ‘one of Accrington’s finest ever cricketers’ following his sudden death.
It was the first time in history that a team had won the Lancashire League title with every member of the team being born in the town.His wife, Victoria Worsick, said: “Alan was very humble and didn’t boast about his achievements. It often took a lot of coaxing to get him to talk about himself and relay those great cricketing stories.
He spent many hours with his friends on a gravel patch at the top of Hodder Street in Accrington between the garages on a Sunday morning. He and his friends joined St Paul’s scouts and formed a football team and joined the scouts league, winning both the league and the cup. He met Victoria in 1969 at a cricket match which she attended with some friends. The couple bought a flat-topped bungalow on Moss Hall Road in Accrington and got married at Cannon Street Baptist Church in Accrington in 1972.
They subsequently moved to Leyburn Close where Victoria and Alan lived for 23 years celebrating their 50th Golden Wedding anniversary last September. Alan’s incredible cricketing career also saw him help Accrington Cricket Club win the Worsley Cup in 1970 and the Telegraph Cup in 1986 when he was named ‘Man of the match.’
Following a phenomenally successful two-year stint with Ribblesdale League Read, where the father-of-two is still revered to this day, he engaged as Accrington’s professional for the 1974 season. Alan’s first season as professional yielded 69 wickets and 328 runs, which almost doubled his previous total of runs for Accrington in his eight previous seasons and he also took a hat-trick in the Worsley Cup semi final defeat at Church.
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